Comment by bscphil

> This file picker does not have a thumbnail view. It is broken software. Thumbnails are not a cute little extra, they are essential. This is as bad as a file picker that doesn’t list the name of the files, only their creation date, or inode serial number. It is broken software. No, individual file previews aren’t "thumbnails."

As is unfortunately typical of articles like this, it overstates its case to the point of making it difficult to engage with. No, it isn't as bad as a file picker that doesn't list the names of the files. No, for most things one uses a file picker for, it isn't essential.

For that matter, I was actually completely unaware that my file picker (I use KDE) supports showing a thumbnail view. I did not know this because I have not ever needed to use such a feature. I use the file picker in "details" mode exclusively. On the rare occasional where I need to disambiguate two files because I don't know the name of what I'm looking for, the image preview has been more than sufficient.

I'll certainly grant that this is a feature that it makes a lot of sense for a file picker to have, and for a handful of use cases (trying to find a single image in a large directory of badly named image files) it might even be essential. But this tendency to overstate one's case is at the very least irritating, and IMO it leads to unwarranted attacks on developers that makes people shut down and resist spending their time on solving your problem.